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Book SynopsisDecolonization and Anti-colonial Praxis presents research on contemporary forms of decolonization and anti-colonialism in practice. It pertains to the ways in which individuals, groups, and communities engage with the logic of epistemic colonial power within areas of citizenship, migration, education, Indigeneity, language, land struggle, and social work. The contributions in this edited volume empirically document the conceptual and bodily engagement of racialized and violated individuals and communities as they use anti-colonial principles to disrupt criminalizing institutional discourses and policies within various global imperial contexts. The terms ‘Decolonization’ and ‘Anti-colonialism’ are used in diverse and interdisciplinary academic perspectives. They are researched upon and elaborated in necessary ways in the theoretical literature, however, it is rare to see these principles employed in applied forms. Decolonization and Anti-colonial Praxis provides a much needed contemporary and representative reclamation of these concepts from the standpoint of racialized communities. It explores the frameworks and methods rooted in their indigeneity, cultural history and memories to imagine a new future. The research findings and methodological tools presented in this book will be of interdisciplinary interest to teachers, graduate students and researchers. Contributors are: Harriet Akanmori, Ayah Al Oballi, Sevgi Arslan, Jacqueline Benn-John, Lucy El-Sherif, Danielle Freitas, Pablo Isla Monsalve, Dionisio Nyaga, Hoda Samater, Rose Ann Torres, Umar Umangay, and Anila Zainub.
Table of ContentsForeword George J. Sefa Dei Acknowledgements 1. Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s Concept of Khudi and Anti-colonial Praxis Anila Zainub 2 Palimpsest, Contrapuntal and the Medicine Wheel: An Exploration of Decolonizing Thinking Umar Umangay 3 Civic Resistance: Towards a Conceptualization of Anti-racist Civic Engagement Sevgi Arslan 4 Dancing to the Lyrics of Death Ayah Al Oballi 5 Reaching for My Multiplicity of Identities: My Decolonizing Journey as an English Language Proficiency Examiner Danielle Freitas 6 Re-appropriation of the Indigenous Peoples in the Latin American National Discourse Pablo Isla Monsalve 7 A Pedagogy of Palestine: Israeli Settler Colonialism as a Metaphor for Understanding Canadian and US Settler Colonialism Lucy El-Sherif 8 Decolonization, Contestation and the Voices of Black Women: (Re)Defining Feminist Resistance, Activism and Empowerment Jacqueline Benn-John 9 An Anti-colonial Reading of Eurocentricity, the Fragmentation, and the (Mis)Representation of Indigenous Cultures Harriet Akanmori 10 A Call for Change that Recognize and Integrate the African Indigenous Healing Practices into the Social Work Profession Hoda Samater 11 Education, Neoliberalism and Humanizing Curriculum Dionisio Nyaga and Rose Ann Torres 12 Those Migrant Souls Anila Zainub Index
